Will and Jada Pinkett Smith to host Nobel concert

American rap artist and actor Will Smith and his wife, the actress Jada Pinkett Smith, will co-host this year's Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, organizers said Wednesday.

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Payton plans to play Smith, Grant, for now

Despite the looming possibility of four-game suspensions for Will Smith and Charles Grant, Saints coach Sean Payton intends to play the starting defensive ends in Sunday's season opener against Detroit — unless the NFL soon says otherwise.

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How did Meryl Streep become Will Smith?

The legendary actress isn't afraid to get silly, to throw something into her films for younger viewers and she doesn't shy away from high concept films.

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Moment-by-moment recap of the Oscars

Welcome to the “Slumdog Millionaire” awards. I’ll be telling you really important things you need to know about what goes down, just in case you’re not actually watching. Or maybe you are watching — and reading this and Tweeting and at a party and playing Oscar Bingo and voting in a pool all at once. Maybe you’re that able.

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Will Smith tops Forbes.com's bankable stars list

Will Smith was voted the most bankable star in Hollywood in a survey of industry professionals by Forbes.com.

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Will Smith voted 2008's top moneymaking movie star

No name on the marquee was more pleasing to theater owners in 2008 than Will Smith, according to a survey of movie exhibitors. Smith, star of "Hancock" and "Seven Pounds," was voted the star who generated the most box office revenue for theaters in an annual survey by Quigley Publishing Co.

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Movie crowds adopt `Marley' with $37M weekend

Hollywood had a happy holiday with a huge Christmas weekend as movies from Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson, Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett and Adam Sandler all opened strongly.

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Review: How much cheese? ‘Seven Pounds’ worth

“Seven Pounds” slogs about, impressed with its own supposed depth, as we watch Will Smith play a man attempting to pay for his past sins. Director Gabriele Muccino (“The Pursuit of Happyness”) seems to think he’s in Ingmar Bergman territory, but he’s actually made the longest, most dour episode of “My Name is Earl” imaginable.

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Carrey's 'Yes Man' earns aye vote with $18M debut

Movie audiences greeted Jim Carrey and Will Smith with a lukewarm "yes' as snowstorms undermined weekend debuts from both stars.

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Will Smith: It's all about helping others

Will Smith is bringing the message of his new movie "Seven Pounds" to the Midwest with a promotional tour that also turned into a fundraiser.

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AP source: 6-8 NFL players probed for steroids

Six to eight players are under investigation by the NFL for violating the league's drug policy by taking a weight-loss diuretic that is considered a masking agent for steroids. A person familiar with the case provided the number of players involved Monday, saying estimates of a higher figure were untrue. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the players are appealing the findings.

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'Hellboy' stokes box office with $34.5 million

"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" caught box-office heat with a $34.5 million debut, while Eddie Murphy flopped as his comedy "Meet Dave" opened with just $5.3 million.

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How's `Hancock' stack up among movie twists?

A Will Smith movie packs in millions of people over Fourth of July weekend. No surprises there.

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'Hancock' grabs heroic $107.3M over long weekend

Will Smith's box-office superpowers remain intact. Smith's "Hancock" — the story of a boozing, foul-mouthed superhero who dresses like a street bum — led the Fourth of July weekend with a $66 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Will Smith's kids see `daddy being mean' in film

Will Smith usually plays the hero in his summer blockbusters. But in "Hancock," he drinks, swears, mouths off — and goes to prison.

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Saints sign Smith to $70 million deal

New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith has signed a contract extension that will make him one of the NFL's highest-paid defensive players.

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New music video Web site features major label artists

A company backed by investors including Will Smith and major record labels has launched a new Web site offering 10,000 free, high-definition music videos.

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Smith Role Wins Military `academy' Award

Will Smith wasn't nominated for an Oscar this year, but his role in "I Am Legend" has earned a different "academy" award — from the cadets at the U.S. Military Academy.

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'Treasure' Finds More Box Office Fortune

Fortune-seeker Nicolas Cage, lonely guy Will Smith and a pack of talking chipmunks ended Hollywood's year on a happy note. Cage's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" was the No. 1 movie for a second weekend with $35.6 million, followed by "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with $30 million and Smith's "I Am Legend" with $27.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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ADL Says Will Smith Didn't Praise Hitler

A Jewish group said Wednesday that it accepts Will Smith's explanation that he never praised Adolf Hitler in remarks the star says were misinterpreted.

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Will Smith Angered by Misinterpretation

Will Smith is angry over celebrity gossip Web site articles that he said misinterpreted a recent remark he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler.

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Smith's 'Legend' Grows With $76.5M Debut

For the last man on Earth, Will Smith sure has a lot of friends. The Warner Bros. tale "I Am Legend," starring Smith as a plague survivor who may be the last living human, debuted with $76.5 million, the biggest December opening ever and a personal best for one of Hollywood's top box-office champs, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Smith Says Film Not Yet OK'd in China

Will Smith's new sci-fi thriller, "I Am Legend," is hitting movie theaters across Asia later this month — but not in China.

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Will Smith Honored in Santa Barbara

Will Smith was honored with the Modern Master Award — an honor that says he is a master of his craft — at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

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Will Smith Meets Japan's Prime Minister

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his countrymen could use a piece of advice from Will Smith's new movie, "The Pursuit of Happyness," the story of a homeless man and his young son who make good.

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A racially-tinged advertising decision has gone awry for the movie "Couples Retreat." Marketers of the Vince Vaughn comedy, which stars four couples in a tropical paradise, removed black actors Faizon Love and Kali Hawk from the promotional poster used in the United Kingdom afte …

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Halle Berry may be in her 40s, but she is just hitting her prime. Berry, whose longtime boyfriend, Canadian model Gabriel Aubry, said in an Esquire magazine story that sex is better now that she was older.

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Congratulations to everyone on the Fox News team. Obviously, it takes a total team effort to be the Leader on cable news. The best way Americans can honor the men and women serving overseas is to be informed about the issues confronting our country.

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To go along with starring in summer sci-fi blockbusters, Will Smith, or rather his production company, will be producing a cop procedural drama for the Sci Fi Channel . . .

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Will Smith and the Sci Fi channel (soon to be Sy Fy) coming together to create a backdoor pilot about a ghost seeing cop called Unfinished Business.

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In an interview with "Entertainment Tonight" last year, Barack Obama said that he'd like actor Will Smith to play him if a movie is ever made about his life. "Will and I have talked about this because he has the ears!" Obama said.

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Seven Pounds, A Must See

A tear jerker is an understatement. Will Smith did it up in this film. His performance was superior and very unexpected.

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We find ourselves at a critical juncture in popular culture. Recent events would suggest that America is ready for a new kind of onscreen dialogue about race. Yet the same old narratives of race in America just keep getting trotted out.

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Equal parts bizarre and conventional, 'Seven Pounds' is … if not good … an intriguing film. It will likely satisfy you if you're willing (or able) to give in to its unique form of emotional manipulation.

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Smith's discomfort with love scenes, which he also discussed during a recent appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," was about to ruin an intimate take with "Seven Pounds" co-star Rosario Dawson, that is until Jada gave him the green light to just go for it.

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If there's one thing I Am Legend didn't need, it's a prequel. And if there's anything I Am Legend needed even less, it's a sequel.

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"BeyonJay" earned a total of $162 million between June 1, 2007 and June 1, 2008, which puts them on a perch overlooking second-place finishers Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, who pulled $85 million in the same time frame.

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Celebs attending the grand opening included Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Forest Whitaker, Louis Gossett, Jr., Holly Robinson Peete, Tracey Edmonds, L.A.

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'I Am Legend' prequel in development. Warner Bros. is developing a prequel to "I Am Legend," with Will Smith on board to return.

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Will Smith has his sights set on the lead role in "The Last Pharoah," a Columbia drama to be penned by "Braveheart" writer Randall Wallace and produced by Smith's Overbrook Entertainment. See more irresistible headlines

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Funny political videos, including a new political drone, Mark Levin, and Pastor Manning tells Hillary Clinton to NEVER accept the VP.

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Last year, Will Smith starred in an update of Richard Matheson's future shock novel I Am Novel, which became the second-biggest non-sequel of 2007, and ever since then, there's been a lot of rumors and speculation and curiosity whether Warner Bros.

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Actor and star of "Hancock", Will Smith has told a UK tabloid Now magazine that he and Jada Pinkett-Smith don't fight their attraction urges, and are down with an open marriage. He told the UK's Now magazine, "I'll tell my wife if I need to have sex with someone else."

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Devastated over the loss of her dog Rocco at the hands of a rattlesnake, Jada Pinkett Smith has enlisted the services of TV's "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan to help teach her pooches to avoid the slippery creatures.... See more irresistible headlines

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The latest issue of Italian Vogue, showcasing models of color, may prove that black is not only beautiful, but profitable - its advertising is up 30 percent over a normal issue. "It's about myth-busting," said marketing expert Jerri DeVard.

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The critics are all buzzing about a plot twist that makes absolutely no sense, and how it ruined the movie. Well, I haven't seen the movie yet, but I did read about the twist and think if it had been done correctly (or better?) it might have actually been pretty good.

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"Hancock" starts off with an inspired idea: Will Smith as an angry street person alienated by his own superpowers. Smith's Hancock is overlaid with two potentially volatile elements that accompany Smith everywhere: his race and his superstar status.

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Reviewed by Manohla Dargis: Soon into the superhero spectacular "Hancock," before the machinery has fully kicked in, and the story is still wreathed in blissful ambiguity, you see the star Will Smith sprawled on a Los Angeles bench.

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Kg on Hancock

A movie about a disgruntled superhero staring Will Smith, Jason Bateman, and Charlize Theron. Hancock is depressed "who gives a !$@#" hero that seems to do more harm than good.

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Movie Review: "Hancock"

On paper, this movie had all the right elements to succeed.

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